Help talk:Conventions
Redirects for accented names
Has anybody thought of using redirects to allow linking to names with accents? The link would be redirected to the appropriate page automatically. This would allow the convention to be reversed also: you could have redirects without accents linking to articles with.
I'm trying without success to think of an example… HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 07:36, 14 December 2006 (PST)
I did think of this, but I thougt it unlikely that someone would search for an accented name instead of using the A-Z index :) I don't mind creating redirects for names with accents, if it's thought they'd be helpful, but I'd prefer to continue the practice of not using them for the articles themselves. For people not familiar with the alt-characters, it's a big pain, and they add special characters to the page titles that make it hard to just type them in, for those who choose to do so.
I'm open to discussion on any way we could make it easier...
